Down the mountain, Chen Jie directly fell into the cave.
"Master, you're here!" Lin Mengjiao quickly turned around. Seeing Chen Jie, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Did you find anything?" Chen Jie asked.
"No, Master. There's nothing here but a pile of dry bones. Look..."
Lin Mengjiao pointed into the depths of the cave and said.
Chen Jie focused his gaze. Indeed, as Lin Mengjiao had said, the cave contained nothing but a pile of dry bones.
These bones were clearly quite old, and they were scattered everywhere, indicating that the place had been searched several times.
It was likely that Xiao Ding had sent people to look.
"Master, what do we do now? Should we leave?" Lin Mengjiao asked helplessly.
Chen Jie smiled, "What are you thinking? We went through so much trouble to get here, are we just going to look and leave?"
"But, I've already checked everywhere, and there's really nothing useful." Lin Mengjiao explained.
Chen Jie looked at her with a half-smile.
Lin Mengjiao panicked and quickly said, "Master, you don't suspect me of taking anything, do you? I can take off all my clothes for you to check!"
As she spoke, she reached for her collar, about to pull it down.
Lin Mengjiao's allure was already enough to make Chen Jie restless, and this action made him even more tempted.
Chen Jie suddenly grabbed her hand, "Of course I trust you."
"Then..." Lin Mengjiao breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"Since the Yang and Yin families could find this place, it means that even without a map, some people can still find it. I estimate that several groups of people have come here one after another! If it were that easy to find, it would have been plundered long ago."
"If it's not here, then there are only two possibilities: either there's another secret here, or the good stuff was hidden by that蛟 (jiaolong)."
Chen Jie said.
Lin Mengjiao's beautiful eyes lit up, "Where is that 蛟?"
"I don't know. It probably escaped when it fell off the cliff. I'll search this place first."
Chen Jie sat down cross-legged and began to sense carefully.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, his gaze bright, "I can sense a faint but vast spiritual energy within this cave. The good stuff must still be here!"
Saying that, Chen Jie clenched his fist and punched the stone wall.
Boom!
A loud noise.
The stone wall in front of him was blasted open by Chen Jie's punch.
Immediately, Chen Jie's sharp eyes noticed a ring flying away.
Swish!
Chen Jie's figure flashed, he caught up to the ring, and grabbed it.
"A ring?" Lin Mengjiao followed Chen Jie, her fragrance entering his nose.
"Master, I can sense the spiritual energy on this ring! It's very strong! But it's clearly just an ordinary ring." Lin Mengjiao said doubtfully.
Chen Jie exclaimed in surprise, "No wonder, so that's how it is! We're rich!"
"Master, what do you mean?" Lin Mengjiao's pretty face lit up with joy, but she was also confused.
Chen Jie flicked his finger, and a drop of blood flew into the ring.
Chen Jie said, "This is no ordinary ring, it's a storage ring!"
"What is a storage ring?" Lin Mengjiao asked.
"Uh, it's a ring that contains another world inside, where you can store things." Chen Jie explained.
Lin Mengjiao's expression trembled.
She looked at the ring with longing.
If she had a spatial ring herself, wouldn't that mean she could travel anywhere conveniently as long as she brought enough things?
When she had escaped from her previous master, carrying a backpack had been extremely troublesome.
"This storage ring was probably masterless for a long time, so the aura inside leaked out, which is why people discovered this place was extraordinary. Let me see what good things are here!"
Chen Jie scratched the ring with the finger of his other hand.
With a flip of his hand, a spirit stone appeared in his palm.
This spirit stone was several times larger than the ones he had obtained from the Prosperous Auction House.
One of these was enough for him to advance by one level.
Lin Mengjiao, feeling the surging spiritual power emanating from it, was stunned.
The next second, Chen Jie waved his hands repeatedly.
Bang bang...
Spirit stone after spirit stone was taken out by Chen Jie.
Before long, they were piled up into a small mound.
"This, Master..." Lin Mengjiao was so excited that she was almost speechless.
Chen Jie was also filled with excitement. With these, he might not even run out of them even if he advanced his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment stage, or even the Golden Core stage!
"Don't panic, there's more!"
Chen Jie swiped again, and then a stack of parchment appeared in his hand.
"Foundation Establishment Pill Recipe, Golden Core Recipe..." Chen Jie's whole body trembled.
Another set of jade slips was taken out.
"This..."
Lin Mengjiao was so excited that she couldn't control herself, her voice changing as she said with a flushed face, "Master, are these all various cultivation techniques?"
Chen Jie nodded solemnly. Although there was no one else besides the two of them, he quickly put these things into the storage ring.
Then, several jade bottles were taken out.
Various elixirs.
"Master, we seem to have struck it rich!" Lin Mengjiao said with a choked voice.
"Calm down, put these things away, and let's leave first." Chen Jie said.
Just then, a faint sound came from outside the cave.
The two turned to look and saw a figure climbing up.
This was one of Yang Siqing's subordinates.
Following him, more people climbed into the cave.
"Miss, quickly come up."
The last person reached out and pulled Yang Siqing's beautiful body up.
"Chen Jie, it's you!" Yang Siqing exclaimed upon seeing Chen Jie, "Was it you who lured away the giant python just now?"
Chen Jie nodded.
Just as Yang Siqing was about to speak, a subordinate suddenly pointed at the pile of jade stones in front of Chen Jie and exclaimed, "Miss, look!"
"What!"
Yang Siqing turned and looked, her body trembling.
Although she didn't know the true purpose of spirit stones, she understood that such things could help cultivators improve their strength!
"So... so many!"
Yang Siqing stood before the pile of spirit stones, stunned, and murmured.
At this moment, Yang Siqing turned around and said gratefully to Chen Jie, "Chen Jie, thank you for luring away the giant python and the Yin family members! I will repay you!"
Then, she said to her subordinates, "Move all these things away!"
"What did you say?" Lin Mengjiao's pretty face turned cold, "You don't think these things belong to you, do you?"
Yang Wanli immediately said, "These things naturally belong to our Miss. We spent two days searching for them."
Lin Mengjiao sneered, "You say these things belong to your Miss, but is her name written on them, or do they automatically recognize her as master?"
Yang Siqing's pretty face darkened, "Chen Jie, what do you mean by this?"
"What she means is what I mean. We're taking these things." Chen Jie said.
These spirit stones were too important to him; he had no intention of handing them over to anyone.